History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire (1884) (14578296968)

Identifier: historyofromeromv4p1duru (find matches)
Title: History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Duruy, Victor, 1811-1894
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Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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th Roman populations and defended bystrong cities. After the defeat of Arminius and Marbod theoccupation of this territory was not beyond the strength of theEmpire, and would have changed its destiny. The occasion thenlost was not recovered till, at the end of eight centuries, Charle-magne put an end to Eastern invasions when he forced theGermanic nations to enter into his new Empire of the West. Butthey entered it only after the great downfall, and had never beentouched by the influence of Rome, whence it happened that theyhave kept up to modern times their native rudeness and thatpeculiar culture, das Germanenthum, so different from the civilizationof the Latin races. 1 About the year 650 the Czechs occupied Bohemia, where they still are, but, perhaps,had the Romans been there they might never have effected an entrance. The frontier of theDanube and the Rhine is a line of nearly 2,500 miles. From the Bohemian mountains tothe North Sen by the valley of the Elbe is not over 420 miles.
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Statue of Tiberius, found at Veii (Vatican, Museo Ohiaramonti, No. 400). VOL. IV.